Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting
A new collaboration between researchers in Poland and the UK proposes the prospect of using Gaussian Splatting to edit images, by temporarily interpreting a selected part of the image into…
MIO: A New Multimodal Token-Based Foundation Model for End-to-End Autoregressive Understanding and Generation of Speech, Text, Images, and Videos
Multimodal models aim to create systems that can seamlessly integrate and utilize multiple modalities to provide a comprehensive understanding of the given data. Such systems aim to replicate human-like perception…
Quoroom acquires Investory to scale up its capital-raising platform for startups
These days, private investors have a range of options for investing in startups without having to deal with them in real life. This ecosystem more or less started with AngelList,…
Uber taps Yandex spinout Avride for autonomous delivery and ride-hail partnership
Uber is not done snatching up autonomous vehicle partnerships. The ride-hail and delivery giant on Thursday announced a multi-year deal with Yandex spinout Avride to bring the company’s sidewalk delivery…
Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less
AI tends to make things up. That’s unappealing to just about anyone who uses it on a regular basis, but especially to businesses, for which fallacious results could hurt the…
Hey, UK! Here’s how to ‘opt out’ of Meta using your Facebook and Instagram data to train its AI
After Meta recently reignited controversial plans to use the public posts of U.K. Facebook and Instagram users’ as AI training fodder, the social networking giant has taken the next step…
Spotify adds a new, automatically updating playlist for offline listening
Spotify introduced a new feature today called Offline Backup. This feature for premium users is essentially a list of songs you recently listened to and that you can consume offline.…
ETH Zurich spinoff Voliro’s flying robots save lives, but don’t tell its CEO
We have only touched the surface of what drones can do and how ubiquitous they will become. This is also true in industry, where they have the potential to replace…
Scammed and exploited, she built an AI-driven app for immigrants like her
Immigrants face an enormous number of challenges and difficulties. In particular, without a local base of family or friends to depend on, new immigrants often find themselves in the dark…
Google pilots blocking some sideloaded apps in India
Google has announced that it is blocking the installation of certain apps automatically from getting sideloaded on Android devices in India. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…